C ORMORANT FALL 2006
C ormorant Books
CELEBR ATING 20 YEARS OF LITERARY PUBLISHING
CONTENTS NEW TITLES Publisher’s Message: A Short History of Cormorant Books Home Schooling by Carol Windley
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To the Far Shore by Négovan Rajic
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Coureurs de Bois by Bruce MacDonald Other Men’s Sons by Michael Rowe Terracide by Hubert Reeves
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NOW IN PAPERBACK Gently Down the Stream by Ray Robertson
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED The Collected Radio Drama of Marie-Claire Blais RECENTLY RELEASED
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PRIZE WINNERS AND NOMINEES TRANSLATIONS BACKLIST
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Publisher’s Message
A SHORT HISTORY OF CORMORANT BOOKS
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wenty years ago, Jan and Gary Geddes started Cormorant Books on their farm outside of Dunvegan in Eastern Ontario. Each of them had a reason for naming the company for this particular bird. According to Gary, the cormorant is such a good fisher that humans use it, with a wooden ring to prevent it from swallowing its catch. Gary enjoyed being of use to Canadian writers briefly, then passing the responsibility and the glory to Jan, who had heard a rumour that the cormorant was a voiceless bird. She endeavoured to give that bird a voice by introducing new writers to readers across Canada. Both Gary and Jan succeeded in acquiring the good catches, the new writers, and providing a foundation for a company that has introduced many significant voices. Where are they now? Gary claims not to have swallowed all the manuscripts sent to him, however slick or fishy, but to have published some great Canadian books. He is now living in his favourite spot, the West Coast, and doing what he loves best, writing. His recent books include the acclaimed Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things and Sailing Home. Jan Geddes now lives in Victoria and is working on a novel and is studying Latin. The hallmark of Cormorant’s twenty years of publishing is the discovery and promotion of new writing talent; in this time, the company has had ten books nominated for the various incarnations of the Books in Canada First Novel Award. The company’s fiction and translations have been nominated for many national, regional, and civic book awards and prizes. (For a list of the prize-nominated books, please turn to pages 15 through 20.) Now in Toronto, keeping the Cormorant tradition established in 1986 alive has, at times, been difficult. At other times, it’s been relatively easy – finding a narrative voice of character and distinction, the new author with something to say that’s not been said before, rescuing the out-of-print authors whose reputations have tarnished with age and neglect. Publishing books, such as those in the pages of this catalogue, is an adventure; it’s an intellectual pursuit without parallel. When a new book arrives from the printer, when an author receives her first glowing review, the hardest of times are forgot. We all live for these moments. The company’s dedication to publishing a diversity of voices from across the country continues, along with the belief that these voices are worth hearing. They are worth reading, not just for a small and select audience, but for the largest possible one, which is why we rely on booksellers and librarians, and why we rely on book reviewers and the media, who play as important a role in this endeavour as do we, the staff and authors of Cormorant Books. Marc Côté, Publisher
New Release/Fiction
HOME SCHOOLING Carol Windley Stories
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rom the acclaimed author of Visible Light comes a collection of seven outstanding stories, each set against the rural landscape of Vancouver Island and the cities of the Pacific Northwest. In these stories the memories and dreams of characters are examined, revealing them to be both cages and keys to the cages. The life-lessons learned by the characters are often as complicated and painful as they are illuminating. In the title story, two sisters fall in love with their math tutor on one of the Gulf Islands, inhabited equally by the ghosts of the misfits and Hollywood stars who came to live there, and the children of an alternative school, run by the girls’ criminally optimistic father. In “Sand and Frost,” a young girl drops out of UBC, returns home, and discovers that her domineering grandmother is the sole survivor of a shocking act of family violence. In “What Saffi Knows,” a child, unable to explain to her self-involved parents, struggles with the knowledge of the whereabouts of another missing child. In these remarkable seven stories, Carol Windley creates a sense of place and of people that breathe the cool wet air of a spring morning on Gabriola Island. Carol Windley’s Visible Light won the 1993 Bumbershoot Award (Weyehauser’s fiction prize), and was nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. The stories in Home Schooling have been published in several literary magazines on the West Coast (Event and Malaspina) and one of the stories, “What Saffi Knows,” won the Western Magazine Award for Fiction in 2002. Carol lives in Nanaimo.
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TO THE FAR SHORE Négovan Rajic A Novel Translated by Nora Alleyn
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n an autobiographical novel that reads like memoir, Négovan Rajic recounts the final years of the Second World War and the year immediately afterwards from the viewpoint of a young resistance fighter in the former Yugoslavia. But this is not a war memoir, replete with grim details and grand, heroic gestures; the older Négovan’s life experiences – and his distance from the story – have given him a strong sense of irony. Having survived the war, the young narrator of the novel returns to the country’s capital and enrolls in the Faculty of Engineering in the University of Belgrade only to discover that the political movement sweeping his country – and its leader, Tito, known in To the Far Shore as The Grand Master and The Master of the Keys – is undermining his education and the entire society in which he grew up. Realizing that his future was not to be found in his homeland, the young narrator takes a trip to see his father, explains himself, and then, together with a friend, plans his defection to Austria. Born in 1923 in Belgrade, Négovan Rajic is the author of four previously published Frenchlanguage novels. Before he emigrated to France in 1947, he was interned in an Austrian prison camp. Living in Paris, he worked at several manual labour jobs, before studying to become a professor. Among other prizes, Négovan has received the Franz Kafka medallion of the European Circle of Prague. He has lived in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, since 1969.
New Release/Fiction
COUREURS DE BOIS Bruce MacDonald A Novel
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ith this, his first novel, Bruce MacDonald juggles the themes of economics, love, religion, spirituality, and self-delusion with the balance, dexterity, and mastery of an old hand from Cirque du Soleil. Smart, funny, and profoundly seditious, Coureurs de Bois is an exhilarating and satiric tour-de-force – an eloquent, insightful, and contemporary novel that counterpoints iconoclastic acerbic wit with honest compassion and seduces with its compelling and provocative characters, scathing societal critique, and a playfully applied sense of mysticism. Coureurs de Bois recounts the impudent odyssey of William Tobe, an Ottawa-born economics grad, who moves to Toronto and falls under the spell of the recently paroled Randall Cobb Seymour. “The Cobb” is a vengefully shrewd and charismatic Native Canadian – part Mohawk, part Ojibway – the embodiment of the trickster and a powerfully animated personality of cunning, gall, and uninhibited entrepreneurial instincts. He is hell-bent on beating the white man at his own dirty game and, in doing so, he masters what he calls “the Queen’s economy.” Good-hearted Will not only becomes involved in Cobb’s scams, but finds himself swept up in his own evolving, urban vision quest. Bruce MacDonald is a graduate of the journalism program at Toronto’s Ryerson University. He grew up in Ottawa, and has lived in Vancouver and Taiwan. Currently, he lives in Toronto, where he works as a technical writer.
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OTHER MEN’S SONS Michael Rowe Essays
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ooking for Brothers, Michael Rowe’s first essay collection(1999), won international critical acclaim, heralding the arrival of one of the most perceptive and insightful journalistessayists writing on popular culture and gay themes today. Other Men’s Sons contains the best of his creative non-fiction written between 2000 and 2005. The journalism includes profiles of the coming-out story of Playgirl magazine’s 30th anniversary centerfold, Scott Merritt; Philip Ing, creative director of the legendary MAC Cosmetics AIDS fundraiser, Fashion Cares; and exclusive interviews with diverse trailblazers, from openly gay horror superstar Clive Barker, to firebrand minister and gay rights activist The Reverend Brent Hawkes. The personal essays cover a range of subjects including the power of erotica, the beauty of men, the real reason for gay marriage, and the importance of the chosen family; these will resonate with many readers, gay and straight alike. The collection ends with a powerful autobiographical essay, “My Life As a Girl,” which is a meditation on the author’s unique childhood. Michael Rowe’s work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, the United Church Observer, The Advocate, and other publications. The editor of four volumes of original short fiction, including Queer Fear and Queer Fear 2, he has won the Lambda Literary Award and the Spectrum Award. He has been a finalist for both the National Magazine Awards and the Associated Church Press Awards. He lives with his partner in Toronto.
New Release/Non-fiction
TERRACIDE Hubert Reeves Translated by Donald Winkler
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ith China and India poised to become the world’s next great economic engines, they are fast becoming the world’s heaviest polluters. One of the world’s greatest astrophysicists, Hubert Reeves has turned his attention to the state of planet Earth. The facts and figures he has studied lead him to believe that the human race is on the brink of making the world uninhabitable. With Terracide, Hubert Reeves joins the ranks of scientists that include David Suzuki and James Hansen (of NASA) demanding that we pay closer attention to our consumption of non-renewable resources and the pollution and global warming they cause. Drawing on cogent scientific data, Reeves lays out a prognosis that is alarming. Terracide is not only a plea for the Earth, it is a blueprint for a race against time. The White House has attempted to silence James Hansen, who on March 19 of this year went public on CBS’ 60 Minutes, with this statement: “In my more than three decades in the government I’ve never witnessed such restrictions on the ability of scientists to communicate with the public.” What Hansen, Suzuki, and now Hubert Reeves have to say about the fate of the Earth is a message we all need to read and understand. Hubert Reeves was born in Montréal and resides in France where he is a Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He is also a well-known popularizer of science and appears frequently on French television. He has authored many books that are bestsellers in France, including Atoms of Silence (1985), and The Hour of Our Delight (1990).
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GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM Ray Robertson A Novel
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“...Gently Down the Stream is just what you need to read when you’ve got the blahs or the blues....Like Nick Hornby, whose wide readership he deserves, Ray Robertson has created a set of characters who are a lot like the people who are likeliest to read this book.” – The Globe and Mail
ank Roberts can’t buy a thrill. His wife, Mary, his best friend, Phil, Phil’s annoying new girlfriend and Canada’s hottest new female novelist, Rebecca — everyone but Hank, it seems — has either become what they set out to be or are well on their way to getting there. Hank isn’t old, but he’s not young anymore, either; is bright, but by no means brilliant; is undeniably restless, but not by any stretch ambitious. He loves his wife, his dog, and rock and roll, but lately that just doesn’t seem to be enough. Doomed, apparently, to be just another overeducated and underachieving Toronto thirty-something, Hank gets jarred out of his itchy complacency by a chance musical encounter at a Friday-night karaoke bar and his realization of the increasing gentrification of his west-end neighbourhood and, by extension, of the mind-numbing homogenization of the world around him.
Ray Robertson is the author of three previous novels, Home Movies (published by Cormorant Books), Heroes, and Moody Food, both of which received starred reviews from Quill & Quire and the latter of which made it to the top one hundred lists of The Globe and Mail and The Vancouver Sun. In 2004, Ray published Mental Hygiene, a collection of his articles, essays, and book reviews. Ray lives in Toronto, where he teaches Creative Writing at the University of Toronto.
Previously Announced
THE COLLECTED RADIO DRAMA OF MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS Marie-Claire Blais Translated with an introduction by Nigel Spencer
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est known for her novels, Mad Shadows, A Season in the Life of Emmanuel, These Festive Nights, and Thunder and Light, among many, many more, Marie-Claire Blais has also been very productive as a dramatist, writing many plays for the radio and the stage. Mostly written for the French-language Radio Canada in the late 1970s and early 1980s, these plays show another side of Marie-Claire Blais’ talent; they explore, in multiple voices, themes that also appear in her fiction and poetry: a shattered emotional, intellectual, and psychological landscape, although not devoid of hope. Plays included in this volume are Vanished, Invader, Two Faces, Murmurs, Garden in the Storm, A Couple, The Exile, and Fever. Marie-Claire Blais is, arguably, the most important writer of her generation. She is a three-time winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, and she has also won the Ordre National du Québec (1995), the Chevalier, Ordre Des Lettres, Ministère de la Culture (Paris, France, 1999), the Prix Athanase-David, the Prix Médicis, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Molson Prize of the Canada Council for the Arts. She lives in Montréal and Florida.
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THE MAN WHO WANTED TO DRINK UP THE SEA Pan Bouyoucas A Novel
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ISBN-10 : 1-896951-92-9 ISBN-13: 978-1-896951-92-8 $22.95 / 225 pages / 5.125” x 7.625” Trade Paper with French Flaps
ow far would you go to make amends? Lukas, a successful Montreal restaurateur, is haunted by the memory of his first love, Zephira. He wants to ask her to forgive him for abandoning her back in Greece forty years ago. But the girl has died. When Lukas recalls that for the ancient Greeks the sleeper’s mind was the bridge where the living and the dead met at night, he embarks on a fantastic journey through an underworld populated by ghosts from his present and past, including his dead parents, his boyhood friend Aris and his grade-school arch-enemy Nestor; with cameos from Marilyn Monroe, and the Goddess Artemis.
BISAC Codes FIC019000 Fiction/Literary
PURE INVENTIONS James King A Novel
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ISBN-10: 1-896951-94-5 ISBN-13: 978-1-896951-94-2 $22.95 / 246 pages / 5.5” x 8.5” Trade Paper with French Flaps BISAC Codes FIC019000 Fiction/Literary
et in nineteenth-century Tokyo and twentieth-century Boston, Pure Inventions tells of the incredible adventures of Hiroshi — prankster, forger, authenticator, and artist. The son of a Japanese courtesan and an American naval officer, Hiroshi never feels at home in his native Japan. Torn by his mixed heritage, he is constantly compelled to reinvent himself, sometimes with disastrous consequences. In its recreation in vivid detail of the adventures of its enterprising, tortured hero, Pure Inventions is a story of various kinds of estrangement: from parents; from one’s native land; even from one’s best self-interests.
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GREENER THAN EDEN Michael Kohn A Novel
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very spring, hundreds of tree planters migrate north to remote bush camps. Some are drawn to the fast cash, some by the scenery, and some are on the run. Rusticated from university for protesting the felling of the campus arboretum for a parking lot, sick of the noise of urban life, greenhorn Noah Abramson flees Toronto in search of a quiet place where he can become a man on his own terms. But the camp has attracted other fugitives. At first, their mutual struggle to survive the season binds them but as spring stretches into summer, and fever and fire close on the camp, their pasts catch up with them, and some scores must be settled.
ISBN-10: 1-896951-99-6 ISBN-13: 978-1-896951-99-7 $22.95 / 300 pages / 5.5” x 8.5” Trade Paper with French Flaps BISAC Codes FIC019000 Fiction/Literary
THE PERFECT CIRCLE Pascale Quiviger A Novel Translated by Sheila Fischman
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arianne, a young Montrealer, has come to live in Tuscany to draw and write and examine her life. Here she meets Marco, a temptingly seductive man who still lives in his mother’s house in the village and who’s not prepared to commit himself to anything resembling a shared life. Though he breaks her heart, again and again, Marianne can only avoid him by returning to Canada.This first novel by Pascale Quiviger is marked by its luminous language and its unstinting look at what makes Marianne, and Marco, and, indeed, an entire village and the world beyond it, tick.The Perfect Circle is the winner of the 2004 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction (French language).
ISBN-10: 1-896951-96-1 ISBN-13: 978-1-896951-96-6 $22.95/$18.00 US / 224 pages / 5.125” x 7.625” Trade Paper with French Flaps
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TARGETS OF AFFECTION RG Willems A Shelby James Mystery
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ISBN-10: 1-896951-98-8 ISBN-13: 978-1-896951-98-0 $21.95 / 300 pages / 5.125” x 7.625” Trade Paper
helby James has a soft-spot for the underdog. Sick dogs, homeless cats, hurt birds, she goes to bat for them all as a veterinary nurse. So it’s no surprise that Miranda Wall and her menagerie of needy animals appeal to her. But there’s more to Miranda than meets the eye: a silent daughter named Jessie, and a stalking husband, among other disasters. When Shelby takes a closer look into Miranda’s life, her search takes her into the sinister world of mental illness, child abuse, and domestic violence. Set against the harsh beauty of the Saskatchewan prairie, Targets of Affection explores the link between animal abuse and child abuse.
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DAY INTO NIGHT Dave Hugelschaffer A Porter Cassel Mystery
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ISBN-10: 1-896951-93-7 ISBN-13: 978-1-896951-93-5 $21.95 / 300 pages / 5.125” x 7.625” Trade Paper BISAC Codes FIC022000 Fiction/Mystery & Detective/General FIC030000 Fiction/Suspense FIC031000 Fiction/Thrillers
hen a raging forest fire cannot suck in air quickly enough, smoke turns black, blotting out the sun and turning day into night. To a firefighter, this false dusk is a sign of conditions turning rapidly from bad to worse. Things are about to get just as complicated as Porter Cassel hunts for a serial arsonist who waits for the most volatile forest conditions to light fires guaranteed to become unstoppable. But Cassel has more than just fires to contend with—he is a man with a tragedy in his past and the situation becomes more complex when he is framed for the murder of a suspect.
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THE CADENCE OF CIVIL ELEGIES Robert Lecker Essay
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ennis Lee’s Civil Elegies remains one of the most potent long poems devoted to the nature of Canadian identity. Lee wanted us to realize that the cadence of our speaking and reading is politically charged. However, the rational problems that he raised also drove him crazy. Civil Elegies stands as one of the most disturbed and manic poems about Canada ever written. Its narrator is completely falling apart. The Cadence of Civil Elegies marks the launch of the new Cormorant monograph series, which brings unique perspectives to Canadian literary works from the country’s leading academics, writers, and critical thinkers.
ISBN-10: 1-896951-97-X ISBN-13: 978-1-896951-97-3 $24.95/$18.00 US / 120 pages / 5.125” x 7.625” Trade Paper BISAC Codes: LIT004080 Literary Criticism/Canadian LIT007000 Literary Criticism/Books & Reading LIT014000 Literary Criticism/Poetry
INSIDE TORONTO Urban Interiors 1890s to 1920s Sally Gibson
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ased on 260 vintage images and extensive original research, Inside Toronto: Urban Interiors 1880s to1920s is the first book to investigate the complex, interior life of a single city – the ordinary and extraordinary places where Torontonians lived, worked, shopped, and performed the rituals of daily life. Interior photographs are rare. Not many were taken; and fewer have survived. Fortunately, Toronto’s archival resources, supplemented by private and public collections elsewhere, are extensive enough to support an investigation of these interior spaces. Many images are glorious, all are informative. Text illuminates the images and provides historical background.
ISBN-10: 1-896951-95-3 ISBN-13: 978-1-896951-95-9 $69.95/$55.00 US / 450 pages / 12” x 9” Hardcover BISAC Codes ARC003000 Architecture/Domestic ARC005000 Architecture/History ARC011000 Architecture/Public, Commercial or Industrial Buildings
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STRANGE GHOSTS Darren Greer Essays
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ISBN-10: 1-896951-63-5 ISBN-13: 978-1-896951-63-8 $24.95 / 320 pages / 5.125” x 7.625” Trade Paper with French Flaps
rom baseball to Picasso, post-modernism to American foreign policy, the essays are an appealing mixture of polemic, memoir, travelogue, and literary opinion. In a series of essays about the U.S., we see the Iraq invasion as it overshadows his mother’s life and her obsession with baseball. In another series of essays, Greer recounts his travels through India during the height of the nuclear crisis with Pakistan and follows his spiritual wanderings through Venice.
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DOUBTING YOURSELF TO THE BONE Thomas Trofimuk A Novel
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oubting Yourself to the Bone is a story about the nature of grief, about what it means to be a parent in the face of great sorrow, the idea of re-invented love, and hope. Based in Paris and a small town in the Canadian Rockies, this narrative revolves around a horrific car crash that creates startling reverberations for everybody it touches. It’s not the question of “how could this happen?” but rather, “did it happen on purpose?” that drives this narrative. 1-896951-86-4 ISBN-10: ISBN-13: 978-1-896951-86-7 $22.95 / 320 pages / 5.5” x 8.5” Trade Paper with French Flaps BISAC Codes FIC019000 Fiction/Literary
Prize Winners & Nominees 15 Jacques Poulin
VOLKSWAGEN BLUES CBC Canada Reads 2005, selection ISBN 10: 1-896951-42-2 ISBN 13: 978-1-89651-42-3 $19.95/$15.00 US Trade Paper
Neil Bissoondath THE UNYIELDING CLAMOUR OF THE NIGHT Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction of the Quebec Writers’ Federation 2005, winner ISBN 10: 1-896951-87-2 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-87-4 $32.95 Hardcover
Nino Ricci LIVES OF THE SAINTS Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction 1990, winner Smithbooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award 1990, winner ISBN 10: 1-896951-43-0 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-43-0 $19.95 Trade Paper
Pauline Holdstock BEYOND MEASURE The Giller Prize 2004, nominee Commonwealth Writers’ Prize – Canada and Caribbean Region 2005, nominee Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize of the BC Book Prizes 2004, winner City of Victoria Butler Book Prize 2005, nominee ISBN 10: 1-896951-49-X ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-49-2 $22.95 Trade Paper with French Flaps
Michael V. Smith CUMBERLAND Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award 2002, nominee ISBN 10: 1-896951-36-8 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-36-2 $22.95 Trade Paper with French Flaps
Alan R.Wilson BEFORE THE FLOOD Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize of the BC Book Prizes 2000, nominee Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award 1999, co-winner ISBN 10: 1-896951-12-0 ISBN 13: 978-1-89651-12-6 $21.95/$18.00 US Trade Paper with French Flaps
16 Prize Winners & Nominees
Arthur Motyer WHAT’S REMEMBERED Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award 2004, nominee ISBN 10: 1-896951-68-6 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-68-3 $22.95/$18.00 US Trade Paper with French Flaps
Matthew Fox CITIES OF WEATHER McAuslan First Book Prize of the Quebec Writers’ Federation 2005, nominee ISBN 10: 1-896332-20-X ISBN 13: 978-1-896332-20-8 $22.95 Trade Paper with French Flaps
Darren Greer STILL LIFE WITH JUNE ReLit Award for Novel 2004, winner Pearson Canada Readers’ Choice Book Award 2003, nominee ISBN 10: 1-896951-73-2 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-73-7 $21.95 Trade Paper
Gwethalyn Graham EARTH AND HIGH HEAVEN Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction 1944, winner ISBN 10: 1-896951-61-9 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-61-4 $19.95/$15.00 US Trade Paper
Sky Gilbert AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN ReLit Award for Novel 2005, winner ISBN 10: 1-896951-83-X ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-83-6 $21.95/$16.00 US Trade Paper
Chava Rosenfarb SURVIVORS: Seven Short Stories Canadian Jewish Book Award 2005 — Original Translation from Yiddish, winner Howard O’Hagen Short Fiction Prize of the Alberta Book Awards 2005, nominee ALTA National Translation Award 2005, nominee ISBN 10: 1-896951-65-1 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-65-2 $29.95/$24.00 US Hardcover
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Gwethalyn Graham SWISS SONATA Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction 1938, winner ISBN 10: 1-896951-62-7 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-62-1 $19.95/$15.00 US Trade Paper
Élise Turcotte THE ALIEN HOUSE Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction (French language) 2003, winner Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation 2004, nominee ISBN 10: 1-86951-75-9 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-75-1 $29.95/$24.00 US Hardcover
Edward O. Philips BURIED ON SUNDAY Arthur Ellis Award 1987, winner ISBN 10: 1-896332-12-9 ISBN 13: 978-1-896332-12-3 $14.95/$11.99 US Trade Paper
Neil Bissoondath DOING THE HEART GOOD Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction of the Quebec Writers’ Federation 2002, winner ISBN 10: 1-86951-64-3 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-64-5 $19.95/$18.00 US Trade Paper
Neil Bissoondath A CASUAL BRUTALITY WHSmith/Books in Canada First Novel Award 1988, nominee ISBN 10: 1-896951-40-6 ISBN 13: 978-1-896451-40-9 $19.95/$16.00 US Trade Paper
Patrick Kavanagh GAFF TOPSAILS Ottawa-Carleton Book Award 1997, winner NewTel Writer’s Alliance Book Award For Fiction 1998, winner New York Times 20 Best Novels of 1998, selection ISBN 10: 1-86951-84-8 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-84-3 $22.95 Trade Paper
18 Prize Winners & Nominees
Tessa McWatt DRAGONS CRY Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction 2001, nominee City of Toronto Book Award 2001, nominee ISBN 10: 1-896332-13-7 ISN 13: 978-1-896332-13-0 $21.99/$18.00 US Trade Paper with French Flaps
Peter Oliva DROWNING IN DARKNESS Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book of the Writers’ Guild of Alberta 1994, winner FG Bressani Prize 1994, nominee ISBN 10: 0-920953-51-4 ISBN 13: 978-0-920953-51-4 $21.95 Trade Paper
Gerald Lynch EXOTIC DANCERS City of Ottawa Book Award 2003, nominee ISBN 10: 1-896951-52-X ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-52-2 $21.95 Trade Paper
Tim Lilburn LIVING IN THE WORLD AS IF IT WERE HOME Saskatchewan Book Awards 1999, winner Saskatoon Book Award Award 1999, nominee ISBN 10: 1-896951-14-7 ISBN 13: 978-1-89651-14-0 $16.95/$14.00 US Trade Paper
Ray Robertson HOME MOVIES Alta Lind Cook Prize, winner ISBN 10: 1-896951-02-3 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-02-7 $19.95 Trade Paper with French Flaps
Ray Robertson GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM Globe and Mail Top 100 of 2005, selection ISBN 10: 1-897151-02-0 ISBN 13: 978-1-897151-02-0 $19.95 Trade Paper
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Terry Woo BANANA BOYS Asian-Canadian Writers Workshop Emerging Writers Award 1999, nominee ISBN 10: 1-896332-21-8 ISBN 13: 978-1-896332-21-5 $22.95/$18.00 US Trade Paper
Elizabeth Hay THE ONLY SNOW IN HAVANA Edna Staebler Prize for Creative Non-Fiction, Second Prize ISBN 10: 0-920953-80-8 ISBN 13: 978-0-920953-80-8 $14.95 Trade Paper
François Gravel OSTEND Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation 1996, nominee ISBN 10: 0-920953-93-X ISBN 13: 978-0-920953-93-8 $18.95/$15.00 US Trade Paper
Allan Stratton THE PHOENIX LOTTERY Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour 2001, nominee ISBN 10: 1-896332-16-1 ISBN 13: 978-1-896332-16-1 $22.99/$18.00 US Trade Paper with French Flaps
Greg Kramer THE PURSEMONGER OF FUGU City of Toronto Book Award 1996, nominee ISBN 10: 1-896332-00-5 ISBN 13: 978-1-896332-00-0 $18.99/$15.00 US Trade Paper with French Flaps
Edward O. Phillips SUNDAY’S CHILD WHSmith/Books in Canada First Novel 1981, nominee ISBN 10: 1-896332-07-2 ISBN 13: 978-1-896332-07-9 $17.99/$11.99 US Trade Paper with French Flaps
20 Prize Winners & Nominees
Christiane Frenette TERRA FIRMA Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction (French Language)1998, winner ISBN 10: 1-896951-18-X ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-18-8 $19.95/$15.00 US Trade Paper with French Flaps
Joan Clark THE VICTORY OF GERALDINE GULL Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction1988, nominee WHSmith/Books in Canada First Novel Award1988, nominee ISBN 10: 0-920953-69-7 ISBN 13: 978-0-920953-69-3 $19.95/$12.00 US Trade Paper
Pauline Holdstock THE BLACKBIRD’S SONG WHSmith/Books in Canada First Novel Award 1987, nominee ISBN 10: 1-896951-88-0 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-88-1 $21.95 Trade Paper
Joseph Boyden BORN WITH A TOOTH Upper Canada Writers’ Craft Award 2001, nominee ISBN 10: 1-896951-29-5 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-29-4 $21.95/$18.00 US Trade Paper with French Flaps
Carol Bruneau AFTER THE ANGEL MILL City of Dartmouth Book & Writing Award, nominee ISBN 10: 0-0920953-91-3 ISBN 13: 978-0-920953-91-4 $16.95/$14.00 US Trade Paper
Carol Bruneau PURPLE FOR SKY Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize 2001, winner City of Dartmouth Book Awards 2001, winner ISBN 10: 1-896951-30-9 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-30-0 $21.95 Trade Paper
Translations 21
François Gravel A GOOD LIFE ISBN 10: 1-896951-51-1 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-51-5 $21.95/$16.00 US Trade Paper
François Gravel ADIEU, BETTY CROCKER ISBN 10: 1-896951-60-0 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-60-7 $22.95/$16.00 US Trade Paper with French Flaps
Jacques Poulin AUTUMN ROUNDS ISBN 10: 1-896951-41-4 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-41-6 $22.95/$18.00 US Trade Paper with French Flaps
Élise Turcotte THE BODY’S PLACE ISBN 10: 1-896951-46-5 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-46-1 $22.95/$18.00 US Trade Paper with French Flaps
François Gravel THE EXTRAORDINARY GARDEN ISBN 10: 1-896951-53-8 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-53-9 $22.95/$18.00 US Trade Paper with French Flaps
François Gravel MISS SEPTEMBER ISBN 10: 1-896951-11-2 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-11-9 $18.95/$15.00 US Trade Paper
22 Translations
Jean Lemieux RED MOON ISBN 10: 0-920953-65-4 ISBN 13: 978-0-920953-65-5 $14.95 Trade Paper
Élise Turcotte THE SOUND OF LIVING THINGS ISBN 10: 1-896951-71-6 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-71-3 $19.95/$16.00 US Trade Paper
Christiane Frenette THE WHOLE NIGHT THROUGH ISBN 10: 1-896951-59-7 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-59-1 $22.95/$18.00 US Trade Paper with French Flaps
Jacques Poulin WILD CAT ISBN 10: 1-896951-50-3 ISBN 13: 978-1-896951-50-8 $22.95/$18.00 US Trade Paper with French Flaps
Backlist 23
BALLEM, JOHN BARTLETT, WAYNE BISSOONDATH, NEIL BISSOONDATH, NEIL BISSOONDATH, NEIL BLAIS, MARIE-CLAIRE BOUYOUCAS, PAN BOYDEN, JOSEPH BRUNEAU, CAROL BRUNEAU, CAROL BRUNEAU, CAROL BRUNEAU, CAROL BUSHKOWSKY, AARON
THE OIL PATCH QUARTET (TP) 1-896951-89-9 LOUDER THAN THE SEA (TP) 1-896951-28-7 A CASUAL BRUTALITY (TP) 1-896951-40-6 DOING THE HEART GOOD (TP) 1-896951-64-3 THE UNYIELDING CLAMOUR OF THE NIGHT (HC) 1-896951-87-2 THE COLLECTED RADIO DRAMA OF … (TP) 1-896951-79-1 THE MAN WHO WANTED TO DRINK UP THE SEA (TP) 1-896951-92-9 BORN WITH A TOOTH (TP) 1-896951-29-5 AFTER THE ANGEL MILL (TP) 0-920953-91-3 BERTH (HC) 1-896951-85-6 DEPTH RAPTURE (TP) 1-896951-07-4 PURPLE FOR SKY (TP) 1-896951-30-9 THE VANISHING MAN (TP) 1-896951-58-9
29.95 22.95 19.95 19.95 32.95 34.95 22.95 21.95 16.95 29.95 19.95 21.95 22.95
Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Drama Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction
CLARK, JOAN
THE VICTORY OF GERALDINE GULL (TP)
0-920953-69-7
14.95 Fiction
DUNFORD,WARREN DUNFORD,WARREN DUNFORD,WARREN
MAKING A KILLING THE SCENE STEALER SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
1-896951-66-X 1-896951-77-5 1-896951-70-8
19.95 Fiction 19.95 Fiction 19.95 Fiction
FOX, MATTHEW FRENETTE, CHRISTIANE FRENETTE, CHRISTIANE
CITIES OF WEATHER (TP) TERRA FIRMA (TP) THE WHOLE NIGHT THROUGH (TP)
1-896332-20-X 1-896951-18-X 1-896951-59-7
22.95 Fiction 19.95 Fiction 22.95 Fiction
GIANGRANDE, CAROLE GIANGRANDE, CAROLE GIANGRANDE, CAROLE GIBSON, SALLY GILBERT, SKY GILBERT, SKY GRAHAM, GWETHALYN GRAHAM, GWETHALYN GRAVEL, FRANÇOIS GRAVEL, FRANÇOIS GRAVEL, FRANÇOIS GRAVEL, FRANÇOIS GRAVEL, FRANÇOIS GRAVEL, FRANÇOIS GREENE, ELIZABETH GREER, DARREN GREER, DARREN GREER, DARREN GREER, DARREN
A FOREST BURNING (TP) MISSING PERSONS (TP) AN ORDINARY STAR (HC) INSIDE TORONTO (HC) AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN (HC) AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN (TP) EARTH AND HIGH HEAVEN (TP) SWISS SONATA (TP) ADIEU, BETTY CROCKER (TP) THE EXTRAORDINARY GARDEN (TP) FELICITY’S FOOL (TP) A GOOD LIFE (TP) MISS SEPTEMBER (TP) OSTEND (TP) WE WHO CAN FLY (TP) STILL LIFE WITH JUNE (HC) STILL LIFE WITH JUNE (TP) STRANGE GHOSTS (TP) TYLER’S CAPE (TP)
1-896951-25-2 0-920953-63-8 1-896951-56-2 1-896951-95-3 1-896951-55-4 1-896951-83-X 1-896951-61-9 1-896951-62-7 1-896951-60-0 1-896951-53-8 0-920953-72-7 1-896951-51-1 1-896951-11-2 0-920953-93-X 0-920953-99-9 1-896951-44-9 1-896951-73-2 1-896951-63-5 1-896951-45-7
22.95 12.95 29.95 69.95 29.95 21.95 19.95 19.95 22.95 22.95 14.95 21.95 18.95 18.95 19.95 29.95 21.95 24.95 19.95
HAMPTON, MARY RUCKLOS HAY, ELIZABETH HOLDSTOCK, PAULINE HOLDSTOCK, PAULINE HUGELSCHAFFER, DAVE
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE (TP) THE ONLY SNOW IN HAVANA (TP) BEYOND MEASURE (TP) THE BLACKBIRD’S SONG (TP) DAY INTO NIGHT (TP)
1-896951-90-2 0-920953-80-8 1-896951-49-X 1-896951-88-0 1-896951-93-7
24.95 Non-Fiction 20.00 US 14.95 Non-Fiction 22.95 Fiction 21.95 Fiction 21.95 Fiction
IRELAND, SALLY
FOX’S NOSE (TP)
1-896951-00-7
19.95 Fiction
KAVANAGH, PATRICK KING, JAMES KING, JAMES KING, JAMES KOHN, MICHAEL KOSAR, RICHELLE KRAMER, GREG KRAMER, GREG KRAMER, GREG LAMBERT, BARBARA LECKER, ROBERT
GAFF TOPSAILS (TP) TRANSFORMATIONS (HC) TRANSFORMATIONS (TP) PURE INVENTIONS (TP) GREENER THAN EDEN (TP) A STREAK OF LUCK (TP) COUCHWARMER (TP) THE PURSEMONGER OF FUGU (TP) WALLY (TP) A MESSAGE FOR MR. LAZARUS (TP) THE CADENCE OF CIVIL ELEGIES (TP)
1-896951-84-8 1-896951-57-0 1-896951-74-0 1-896951-94-5 1-896951-99-6 1-896951-47-3 1-896332-02-1 1-896332-00-5 1-896332-19-6 1-896951-22-8 1-896951-97-X
22.95 29.95 21.95 22.95 22.95 22.95 19.99 18.99 22.95 19.95 24.95
Fiction Fiction Fiction Non-Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Non-Fiction Fiction Fiction Non-Fiction Fiction
Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Non-Fiction
24.00 US 18.00 US 16.00 US 18.00 US 24.00 US 18.00 US 14.00 US 14.00 US 18.00 US
15.00 US 18.00 US
55.00 US 16.00 US 15.00 US 15.00 US 16.00 US 18.00 US 11.00 US 16.00 US 15.00 US 15.00 US
15.00 US 15.00 US 16.00 US 18.00 US
24 Backlist
LEMIEUX, JEAN LILBURN,TIM LILBURN,TIM LITTMANN, HELENE LYNCH, GERALD LYNCH, GERALD
RED MOON (TP) LIVING IN THE WORLD AS IF IT WERE HOME (TP) THINKING AND SINGING (TP) PERIPHERIES (TP) EXOTIC DANCERS (HC) EXOTIC DANCERS (TP)
0-920953-65-4 1-896951-14-7 1-896951-38-4 1-896951-08-2 1-896951-32-5 1-896951-52-X
14.95 16.95 24.95 18.95 31.95 21.95
Fiction Non-Fiction 14.00 US Poetics 16.00 US Fiction Fiction Fiction
MACDONALD, BRUCE MCCAIG, JOANN MCNUTT, LINDA MCWATT, TESSA MCWATT, TESSA MOSS, JOHN INVISIBLE MOTYER, ARTHUR
COUREURS DES BOIS (TP) THE TEXTBOOK OF THE ROSE (TP) SUMMER POINT (TP) DRAGONS CRY (TP) OUT OF MY SKIN (TP) INVISIBLE AMONG THE RUINS (TP) WHAT’S REMEMBERED (TP)
1-896951-72-4 1-896951-23-6 1-896951-01-5 1-896332-13-7 1-896332-08-0 1-896951-19-8 1-896951-68-6
22.95 19.95 16.95 21.99 19.99 19.95 22.95
Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction 18.00 US Fiction Non-Fiction 16.00 US Fiction 18.00 US
OLIVA, PETER
DROWNING IN DARKNESS (TP)
0-920953-51-4
21.95 Fiction
PANHUYZEN, BRIAN PHILLIPS, EDWARD O. PHILLIPS, EDWARD O. PHILLIPS, EDWARD O. PHILLIPS, EDWARD O. PHILLIPS, EDWARD O. PHILLIPS, EDWARD O. PHILLIPS, EDWARD O. POULIN, JACQUES POULIN, JACQUES POULIN, JACQUES
THE DEATH OF THE MOON (TP) BURIED ON SUNDAY (TP) THE MICE WILL PLAY (TP) NO EARLY BIRDS (TP) SUNDAY BEST (TP) SUNDAY’S CHILD (TP) A VOYAGE ON SUNDAY (TP) WORKING ON SUNDAY (TP) AUTUMN ROUNDS (TP) VOLKSWAGEN BLUES (TP) WILD CAT (TP)
1-896951-15-5 1-896332-12-9 1-896332-05-6 1-896332-17-X 1-896332-14-5 1-896332-07-2 1-896332-18-8 1-896332-09-9 1-896951-41-4 1-896951-42-2 1-896951-50-3
19.95 14.99 14.99 17.99 13.99 17.99 22.95 18.99 22.95 19.95 22.95
QUIVIGER, PASCALE
THE PERFECT CIRCLE (TP)
1-896951-96-1
22.95 Fiction
RAJIC, NÉGOVAN REEVES, HUBERT RICCI, NINO RICCI, NINO ROBERTSON, RAY ROBERTSON, RAY ROBERTSON, RAY ROGERS, LINDA ROSENFARB, CHAVA ROWE, MICHAEL
TO THE FAR SHORE (TP) TERRACIDE LIVES OF THE SAINTS (TP) LIVES OF THE SAINTS (CASS) HOME MOVIES (TP) GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM (HC) GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM (TP) FRIDAY WATER (TP) SURVIVORS: SEVEN SHORT STORIES (HC) OTHER MEN’S SONS (TP)
1-896951-82-1 1897151-00-4 1-896951-43-0 0-920953-79-4 1-896951-02-3 1-896951-67-8 1-897151-02-0 1-896951-48-1 1-896951-65-1 1-897151-01-2
22.95 19.95 19.95 24.95 19.95 29.95 19.95 22.95 29.95 22.95
SCOTT, BARBARA SMITH, MICHAEL V. STRATTON, ALLAN
THE QUICK (TP) CUMBERLAND (TP) THE PHOENIX LOTTERY (TP)
1-896951-17-1 1-896951-36-8 1-896332-16-1
19.95 Fiction 22.95 Fiction 22.99 Fiction
18.00 US
TANNER, MIKE THORNHILL, JAN TOSTEVIN, LOLA LEMIRE TROFIMUK,THOMAS TURCOTTE, ÉLISE TURCOTTE, ÉLISE TURCOTTE, ÉLISE
ACTING THE GIDDY GOAT (TP) DROUGHT & OTHER STORIES (TP) FROG MOON (TP) DOUBTING YOURSELF TO THE BONE (TP) THE ALIEN HOUSE (HC) THE BODY’S PLACE (TP) THE SOUND OF LIVING THINGS (TP)
1-896951-39-2 1-896951-26-0 0-920953-61-1 1-896951-86-4 1-896951-75-9 1-896951-46-5 1-896951-71-6
22.95 18.95 14.95 22.95 29.95 22.95 19.95
24.00 US 18.00 US 16.00 US
UNWIN, PETER
THE ROCK FARMERS (TP)
0-920953-77-8
12.95 Fiction
WAINWRIGHT, J.A. WILSON, ALAN R. WILLEMS, RG WINDLEY, CAROL WOO, TERRY
A VERY LARGE SOUL (TP) BEFORE THE FLOOD (TP) TARGETS OF AFFECTION (TP) HOME SCHOOLING (TP) BANANA BOYS (TP)
0-920953-87-5 1-896951-12-0 1-896951-98-8 1-896951-91-0 1-896332-21-8
18.95 21.95 21.95 22.95 22.95
Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction
11.99 US 11.99 US 11.99 US 11.99 US 11.99 US 18.00 US 18.00 US 15.00 US 18.00 US 18.00 US
Fiction 18.00 US Non-Fiction 16.00 US Fiction Audio-Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Non-Fiction 18.00 US
Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction
Non-Fiction Fiction 18.00 US Fiction Fiction Fiction 18.00 US